This book is the first full-length study of Certeau's thought, designed as a guide to draw out not only the exceptional range but the overall coherence of his oeuvre. The author focuses on those intertexts that work most powerfully in Certeau's major writings: contemporary French historiography, the writings of early modern mystics and travelers, Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu, Freud, the linguistics of "utterance," and a broad spectrum of work on contemporary cultural practices.
This volume deals comprehensively with the work of Michel de Certeau, the author of one of the most diverse bodies of scholarship and cultural theory to emerge from Europe during the exciting decades after the late Sixties.
